On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 18:44 -0500, Jim Martin wrote: > Ernest L. Williams Jr. wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >I installed "NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1.run" today. > > > >The driver does not load upon reboot which leads to X failing. > > > >I noticed the following line in my modprobe.conf file: > > > >================ modprobe.conf snippet ========================= > >alias ieee1394-controller ohci1394 > >alias char-major-195* nvidia > >================================================================ > > > >After running "modprobe nvidia" manually everything works. However, > >next time I boot up it is gone again. > > > > > >Does anyone know the magic trick here? > > > > > > > >Thanks, > >Ernesto > > > > > > > Sorry, that was a rushed reply: > > more detail: > > In the rc.sysinit file look for the section marked like this: > > echo -n $"Initializing hardware... " > > ide="" > scsi="" > network="" > audio="" > other="" > > Replace other="" with other="nvidia" > and save it. > > if the fedora core graphic boot is important to you, then you need to > make a copy of your xorg.conf and copy it to your /etc/rhgb/xorg.conf > and under the section for your video card, change it back to nv > > Section "Device" > Identifier "Videocard0" > Driver "nv" > VendorName "Videocard vendor" > BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce FX (generic)" > EndSection > > this will allow rhgb to use the nv driver, and your gdm and xwindows > will use the nvidia module so that you have enhanced graphics. > > if graphical boot is not important to you, then you need to edit the > kernel line in /boot/grub/grub.conf and remove the rhgb otherwise it may > ( and most likely will) lock up when booting. > > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 quiet > > Hope this was a little clearer. Your first reply was excellent. However, more details is always good as well. Thanks, Ernesto > > BaVinic >